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Comments on Eco-Be! Mini Robot From Citizen
Tiny mechanical mouse-like robots straight out of the 1940's created from watch parts. (Read
the complete story)
| "I guess its Citizen's answer to Epson's EMRoS robots:
http://222.16.142.1/student/show.asp?id=456
http://www.epson.co.jp/osirase/1996/1118.htm
Cool!" (Adi 3/7/2006 11:12:41 PM) |
| "with light sensor array, flash memory and proper software, it could serve as a scanner that crawls on top of paper. External computer would have to combine all the data to one coherent picture.
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with solar cells, something like that might do reconnaissance in iraq's streets
" (leviret 3/8/2006 6:31:09 AM) |
| "Leviret - cool idea! I've been interested in those pen-sized scanners that would let you grab text from a page with the same sort of motion as using a highlighter pen. But what if you could just pull this little lighter-sized bot out of your pocket and put it on the page..." (Bill Christensen 3/11/2006 9:16:22 PM) |
"Adi - I think that my kids had a couple of these; I can't remember if my sister brought them back from Japan or not. Here's a pic - (Bill Christensen 3/11/2006 9:18:14 PM) |
| "Something like that could serve as a printer-scanner. The scanner hardware features are needed for navigation - to know where to put ink or where to burn laser paper black. Paper is better to be dirty, marked or translucent to table patterns.
" (leviret 3/14/2006 10:39:47 AM) |
| "I need Eco-Bee!!!" ( 3/23/2006 10:39:18 AM) |
| "COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (me 10/28/2008 3:42:19 PM) |
| "How can I buy this robot?(eco be)
thanks" (raheleh olfatkhah 10/30/2008 2:25:51 AM) |
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